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BIG DATA WEEK KUALA LUMPUR

2-11 MAY 2014

HARNESSING VALUE FROM YOUR DATA VARIETY

POST-EVENT REPORT

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What is Big Data Week? 3

BDWKL 2014 overview 4

MDeC’s anchor event: Big Data: Endless

Possibilities

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BDWKL 2014 KL partner events 18

Big Data Week 2015 41

Table Of Content

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What Is ?

One of the most unique global platforms of interconnected

community events focusing on the social, political and

technological impacts of data

Brings together a global community of data scientists, data

technologies, data visualizers and data businesses spanning six

major commercial, financial, social and technological sectors

Events are designed to provide a platform to educate, inform

and inspire – organized by people who are passionate and

knowledgeable about data

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Big Data Week KL (BDWKL) 2014 Overview

Organized and facilitated by MDeC, 18 key events (highest number of

among 30 cities), more than 1500 participants in all events consisting of

workshops, hackathons and seminars

Anchor/Keynote event on 6 May officiated by YB Deputy Minister KKMM,

and received an overwhelming response

10 sponsors, 25 speakers and over 200 senior-level (out of 600) attendees

3 breakout tracks (Business, Technology & Public Sector) on a vast array of BDA

subject matters and case studies

Big Data Roundtable jointly organized with IBM and attended by TKSU1,

KKMM and other ministry reps who discussed the BDA Framework and Open

Data

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Big Data Week KL 2014 Schedule

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BIG DATA: ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES MDEC’S ANCHOR EVENT

6 MAY 2014

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Sponsors & Supporters

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Event Highlights

10 sponsors, 25 speakers and over 200 senior-level (out of 600) attendees from over

388 unique organizations

Breakout tracks (Business, Technology & Public Sector) on a vast array of BDA

subject matters and case studies

A panel discussion that provided industry insights

Networking opportunities during tea-breaks and lunch that saw vendors and end-

users connect. An opportunity to speak with BDA industry leaders and peers

Lucky draw prizes sponsored by Seagate

Presentation slides can be downloaded from: http://bit.ly/1jYs0Ba

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Attendee Profile

80%

15% 5%

Sector Breakdown

Private

Public

EduAttendees from IHLs UTAR, MUST, INTI, MONASH, APU, MMU, IMEC,

UM, UPM, IIC, MPM, NOTTINGHAM, HELP,

TARC, LEG, QUIP, IIUM, APIIT, UITM, UTP,

USIM, UTM, MARA, UTHOM, UUM, HELP, LKW,

MSU, TAYLORS

Public Sector Attendees MIMOS, MDeC, PEMANDU, MPIC, JPA, MOD,

WATER, DBP, EPF, IDFR, JKR, MOH, KLN, MPIC,

MOSTI, KETTHA, KPDNKK, MCMC, MIROS, MIDA,

MAMPU, MARDI, KKMM, MOE, MOHA,

RURALLINK, MOTAC, MOHR, MYIPO, JPN,

KELANTAN, PERAK

39%

25%

17%

14% 5%

1%

Job Function

CxOs, Directors, Chairmans,VPs

Managers

Software architects,scientists, developers

Executives

Lecturers

Media

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Companies Attended

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Companies Attended

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Photo Gallery

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Photo Gallery

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Photo Gallery

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Customer Survey Results

How helpful were our representatives in

providing their assistance during the

event? 4.20/5.00

How do you rate the coordination and

organisation of the event? 4.25/5.00

How do you rate the overall event

content and was the information useful

to you? 4.18/5.00

How would you rate the overall event?

4.20/5.00

Will you attend event of this nature

again in the future? YES: 98% NO: 2%

Overall customer satisfaction

4.2/5.00

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Some Wonderful Testimonials

“Interesting speakers, well organized, short and sweet informatics”

“Good topics, good location, well-run event with great speakers”

“Takes marketing research to another level with technology”

“An eye opener… good information sharing”

“New ways of data manipulation and data analytics!”

“MDeC did a good job in organizing this event”

“[This event] turns data into intelligence”

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There Were Also Lessons Learned

To have buffets instead of sit-down meals so everyone can

choose what they want or can eat

To enforce slide submission deadline so that we have enough

time to check all presentations for relevancy and potential

topic overlaps

To have longer technology track sessions

To start promoting the BDW earlier so more people know

about it

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BDWKL 2014 KL PARTNER EVENTS

2-11 MAY 2014

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KL Partner Event Highlights 2 hackathons on Big Data Analytics, resulting in 23 proof-of-concepts:

One hackathon had a team from Taiwan who flew in to participate.

Another one had oil-palm genome datasets from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board that

challenged the participants to identify and determine the location of certain oil palm genes

in the oil palm genome

6 hands-on workshops with 280 participants trained

3 university partner events

More than 30 media mentions on BDWKL 2014

The Malaysia webpage in Bigdataweek.com was # 1 in terms of traffic, beating the

US and UK.

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Sourcing for sponsors:

Connected Experian (sponsor) to VLT’s BDW opening party

Connected Fusionex (sponsor) to UTAR’s event

Secured prize sponsorship from:

Seagate for 3 events (MDeC, F-Secure and Teradata-MMU events)

Reapfield Technology (MDeC & VLT events)

Amazon (F-Secure event)

We had our 8 PCF recipients, Data Storage Asean (DSA) and IT

Enterprise News promote the BDW2014 on their website

Engaged with our campaign partner, DSA, to develop the Big Data Guide

which was released during the BDWKL 2014. The guide is downloadable

at http://bit.ly/UrnzDh

Facilitated the availability of the MPOB oil palm genome sequence

datasets for the Teradata-MMU hackathon

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KL Partner Event Statistics Event Name Organizer Actual

Attendees

Target

Attendees

Performance

Transit:Distillation (BDW 2014 Opening Party) VLT 383 300 128%

Get Started with R!

Strateq-Revolution

Analytics

56 40 140%

Teradata-MMU-MDeC Big Data Discovery Hackathon

Teradata-MMU-MDeC 65 45 144%

Technology & Marketing: How to Collect & Analyze Data to Make

Informed Business Decisions

Mindvalley 100 100 100%

Creating More Headroom for your Big Data SGI-MDeC-MIMOS 66 75 88%

Homegrown Malaysia: Malaysia’s Contribution to Advancing Big Data MDeC-DSA 116 200 58%

Surfing the Big Data Wave (Closed-Door) Abyres 50 50 100%

Mining FB to Discover Yourself

Sunway University 20 (>50

RSVPs)

20 100%

Making Sense in Journalism through Big Data Taylors’ University 200 200 100%

UTAR Big Data Workshop: A HOW-TO for Mining Big Data

UTAR (Kampar) 80 60 133%

Roundtable on Big Data Analytics with Govt. Officials (Closed-Door) MDeC-IBM 40 40 100%

Big Data Info Retrieval and Representation in Telcos TM R&D 71 70 101%

Large-Scale File Systems for Big Data Analytics SNIA 26 40 65%

DSA CxO Roundtable (Closed-door) MDeC-DSA 10 15 67%

F-Secure Hackathon

F-Secure 25 50 50%

Create Your Own Business Analytics Apps In Just Half A Day! Qlik 30 30 100%

BDW 2014 Closing Party: Unleashing the Power of Big Data (Closed-Door) Fusionex NA NA NA

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Transit: Distillation Big Data Week KL 2014

Opening Party By VLT

The opening party boasted 350 attendees from various

industries - technology, design, art and music. Advertising

was sponsored by Experian and Wall Tailor, and Malaysia

SME was the official media partner.

The opening party was held at the semi-outdoor space of

PJ Trade Centre.

This Transit featured a mixture of debutants from various

industries such as KakaoTalk, ZALORA Malaysia, MyTeksi,

Abah & Sons Co. Motoworks, Piktochart, Thyme Out,

Barista Guild Asia, EPIC ARMY, Serviceclicks Malaysia,

ZENO Group, EnSurvey, Smooshie Juice, Mile High Sounds

and Skyward.

23 Technical R Workshop By Strateq & Revolution Analytics

The Get Started with R workshop was hosted by Revolution Analytics and Strateq in Kuala Lumpur at

Connexion @ Nexus.

Revolution Analytics' data scientists, Mr Julian Lee and Mr William Tjhi shared Big Data Analytics from an

infrastructure neutral perspective and covered all the layers – hardware, databases, analytics engines,

presentation - of the most innovative, or rather 'hottest' data mining / analytics platform in town.

During this workshop, Strateq provided their cloud infrastructure for online demos to participants. Strateq

also shared its COVEO solutions - a single interface for users to search and perform deep levels of business

analytics.

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Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC

For the first time ever, an open dataset consisting of oil palm genome sequences from the

Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), a government agency, was used in the Teradata-MMU

hackathon.

UM .

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Big Data Discovery Hackathon By Teradata-MMU-MDeC

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The event was successful! We had Arzumy from

says.com talking about scaling and infrastructure and

how they cope with the amount of data they process

everyday.

Then we had Damien and Tim from Geomash talking

about Geo services and strategies for summarizing and

presenting data so access time is fast.

Finally, we had Yongho from Mindvalley discuss how to

use data to drive good business decisions.

100+ attended the event and the majority were from

outside the KL Ruby Brigade and NoSQL groups.

Technology & Marketing: How To Collect & Analyze Data To Make

Informed Business Decisions By Mindvalley

27 Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysia’s Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA

28 Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysia’s Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA

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Home Grown Malaysia: Malaysia’s Contribution To Big Data By MDeC-DSA

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Mining Facebook to Discover Yourself By Sunway University

Mine your Facebook workshop was organized

by the Faculty of Science and Technology in

Sunway University on the 7th of May 2014.

This workshop was an introductory hands-on

session to text mining which allowed

participants to identify their Facebook’s

content and social conversations.

The workshop also featured the use of social

network analytical tools which are able to

highlight the strength of ties and closeness of

friends in a social media platform.

Participants of the workshop were from a

diverse range of organizations including GPS

research, Farseer Consulting, Millenium

Radius, Maxis, UTeM and the Home Ministry.

31 Making Sense In Journalism Through Big Data By Taylor’s University

About 200 students participated in the Making Sense of

Journalism through Big Data forum at Taylor’s University

Lakeside Campus on the 7th May.

Ahmed Kamal, founder of Politweet, talked about data

journalism. He spoke about how he retrieved data from

Twitter updates during Bersih 3.0 rally.

Dr. Wong Chin Huat, who is a political activist, explained

how data journalism can help to investigate the country’s

political activities.

The next speaker was Irene Jay Liu, a reporter from

Thomson Reuters who is based in Hong Kong. “If you want

a career in media, you have to deal with data

journalism,” she said. The final speaker was Professor

Zaharom Nain, who is a lecturer at the University of

Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

32 Roundtable on Big Data Analytics With Govt. Officials (Closed-Door)

By MDeC-IBM

A Roundtable Discussion was organized by MDeC in

collaboration with IBM Malaysia with the purpose of

creating awareness among government officials on the

impact of Big Data in the public sector. The theme was Big

Data Analytics, a blue print for success. The event was

chaired by Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, CEO of MDeC, and was

attended by a total of 40 representatives from 15 different

government ministries and agencies.

Mr. Amish Patel gave a presentation on Big Data, which

covered topics such as “Developing the National Big Data

Framework”, “Open Data.gov” and public sector BDA

implementation case studies in other countries.

The Roundtable discussion provided a better insight and

understanding among government officials on the potential

and benefits of Big Data to the public sector and how IBM

can contribute to the building of the National Big Data

Framework.

33 Big Data Info Retrieval And Representation In Telcos By TM R&D

TM Research & Development (TM R&D) organized the 5th

Big Data in Telecommunication in conjunction with Big

Data Week Kuala Lumpur 2014.

Big Data Analytics in Malaysia is emerging as datasets are

becoming so large and complex that it becomes difficult

to process using conventional database management

tools or traditional data processing applications. Thus,

TM R&D has taken this challenge to lead the big data

trend in Malaysia.

The objective of this gathering was to provide exposure

and detailed explanation on Big Data technology from a

telco’s viewpoint and to support the Big Data Week.

The event saw five key speakers share their insights on

respective expertise related to the Big Data Information

Retrieval and Representation in the Telco Domain

theme.

34 Large-Scale File Systems For Big Data Analytics By SNIA

In this event, the topics covered were:

1) Massive scale file system for Big Data Analytics - SNIA Malaysia

2) Converged systems/Software Defined Storage for Big Data - Nutanix

3) Object filesystem - HDS

The crowd found the topics revolving around storage interesting because it was never presented the way it

should be appreciated. Based on the interactive conversations, there is much interest leading towards

requirements and advisory services. And this Big Data Week is a good platform to inject many opportunities

toward the storage networking industry.

35 DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA

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Roundtable objectives:

Feedback:

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DSA CxO Roundtable By MDeC-DSA

38 F-Secure Hackathon By F-Secure

With the slogan "Big Data - Big Ideas", F-Secure Malaysia’s hackathon

started at 10:00 am on 9 May. After 24 hours of intense programming,

the participants demonstrated their apps. The jury consisted of

representatives from Big Data Malaysia, MDeC, and F-Secure.

A total of three prizes were awarded. The “Best Big Data analysis”

reward was given to the Project-F-team and their F-Secure production

analysis app. Taiwanese TMU-team won the “Best usage and

visualization” category for their Android app. The “Best overall app”

award was given to a young developer, Mustapha Taiwo, for his cross-

platform app which filters out potentially harmful search results.

Mustapha Taiwo Taipei Medical

University team

Organizer, contestants & judges

Low Chin Kian, Then Yao Bin,

Tan Yen Ken & Wayne Chew

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Media Mentions (Partial List)

Pre Big Data Week Connecting data professionals, Business

Today, 25 April 2014

MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala

Lumpur in May 2014, SC Cyberworld, 25

April 2014

Big Data Week 2014, Max-IT Online, 25

April 2014

MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala

Lumpur 2014, IT-Sideways, 26 April 2014

MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala

Lumpur in May 2014, SME Magazine

online, 28 April 2014

MDeC anjur Minggu Data Besar, Kosmo, 28

April 2014

MDeC to host Big Data Week KL, Digital

News Asia, 29 April 2014

Big Data Week, pertaruhan segmen BDA,

Interview with Dr Karl (MDeC) and Ivan

Teh (Fusionex), Astro Awani, 2 May 2014

During Big Data Week MDeC to host Big Data Week Kuala

Lumpur in May 2014, Enterprise IT News,

5 May 2014

Government To Build Malaysia's Big Data

Analytics Capability, Bernama, 6 May

2014

Big Data Week 2014 @ Kuala Lumpur,

TechViewAsia, 6 May 2014

ICT industry gets help to build big data

analytics capability, The Edge Malaysia, 6

May 2014

MDeC Raises the Game for Malaysian

Businesses with Big Data Week Kuala

Lumpur 2014, SC Cyberworld, 7 May 2014

Use big data analytics to enhance

productivity, MDeC tells Malaysian

businesses, Computerworld Singapore, 7

May 2014

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Sample Media Clipping

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And By The Way…

We will be hosting BDWKL 2015! (20-26 April)